The Pro Wrestling Audience as Imagined Community Reflecting on the WWE Universe as a "Fan-Generated Narrative" Body
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| Publication date | 2019 |
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| Book title | Convergent Wrestling |
| Book subtitle | Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle |
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| Series | The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture |
| Pages (from-to) | 136-148 |
| Publisher | London: Routledge |
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| Abstract | World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) fan base exists as an imagined community that can be understood through the scope of convergent, user-generated content. This chapter seeks to shed light on how the imagined community is enforced by the actions, discourse, and events promoted in professional wrestling. In addition, the chapter endeavors to highlight how WWE encourages practices of user-generated content and fan-generated narrative and content shaping via convergent media texts and practices. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351233989-11 |
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